In analysing these icons, pay attention to these points (check my list of theses here if you need a refresher):

1) What makes the icon familiar?
2) What makes the icon transgressive?
3) What makes the icon stylized?
4) What makes the icon sacralized?
5) Where is the icon placed in the contemporary iconosphere (late 60s, early 70s USA)?
6) Does the icon figure in your personal image world?

Go straight to the main Manson icon
Go straight to the main Hearst icon

Charles Manson:

Young Manson	Sharon Tate	Wild-eyed Manson	Manson with tattoo'd forehead	Old Manson

Collaborative icon work:

Tribute to and Analysis of some of Charles Manson's Brilliant Insights of Forbidden Truth:
http://forbiddentruth.8k.com/manson_nietzsche.html

Faux News:
http://www.faux-news.com/stories/2005/04/25/

Adversarial icon work:

Freakin' News:



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Patty Hearst:

Young Patty Hearst	Patty as Tania, robbing a bank	Patty's Mugshot	Older Patty - again a socialite

Collaborative icon work:

Courtroom drawing from Hearst trial, by David Rose:


The afterlife of a minor celebrity, or a has-been icon:
http://www.mercurynews.com/2015/02/17/patty-hearsts-dog-wins-at-westminster-kennel-club/

Adversarial icon work:

Crime Library

Warren Zevon: "Roland, the Headless Thompson Gunner":
Lyrics

Video from The Letterman Show

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Painting by Mort Künstler, title Patty Hearst, 1975